Mashhad city (NortheasternIran) - December 12th, 2007
1. Wide of Hossein Noghani and Hojatollah Rajabpour, two stone engravers, entering their workshop and turning on the lights (early morning light)
2. Mid of Noghani sitting at his work desk, beginning his work using a hammer and chisel
3. Close of hand using a chisel to carve patterns into stone
4. Wide of Noghani and Rajabpour working in their workshop
5. Close of Noghani's face
6. Mid of Noghani engraving on stone using hammer and chisel
7. Tilt-up from hand-engraved stone pots to stone sword and tablets
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Hossein Noghani, master of stone engraving
"This art belongs to the city of Mashhad. The art of engraving on stones is transferred to the new generation from the older generation and that's because older masters know how to teach apprentice engravers. This (stone engraving) is a complete and perfect art and Europeans love the objects we make."
9. Wide of Noghani and Rajabpour working in workshop with an engraved piece of stone in foreground
10. Zoom out of Rajabpour working on a fine engraved stone dish
11. Various of Noghani and Rajabpour working in stone engraving workshop
12. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Rajabpour, stone engraver
"Stone engraving is a difficult job and there are not many young people interested in it. Nowadays youths are after easy-to-do jobs with high incomes and jobs like stone engraving does certainly not fit in that category."
13. Tilt-up of carved stone pots and urns
14. Mid of Noghani and Rajabpour speaking to each other and engraved tablets hanging on the wall in background
Mashhad city - December 20th, 2007
15. Wide exterior of decorative stone goods market with people leaving
16. Close of woman's face carved into stone pot
17. Wide of engraved stone urns and stone pictures in store
18. Close of engraved slate reading (Arabic): "Allah"
19. Wide of shop and sign reading (Farsi): "Negin Hatam handicrafts" in foreground
20. Close of hand carving into stone plate using chisel
21. Close / low-angle of man's face
22. Pan from JamalHassani working to engraved stone urns, plates and slates
23. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Jamal Hassani, stone engraver
"Stone carving is a very difficult and a rather masculine job - not really suitable for women. As far as I know, women rarely get into engraving stones."
24. Wide of people walking and looking at shops
25. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Behnam Mohammad-Nejad customer, tourist and art lover
"I visited this market. The carved stones are really beautiful. I loved the art works and engraved stone objects. I believeIranian artists are among the most talented in the whole world."
26. Zoom in to stone dish decorated with engraved pictures of Iranian Achaemenid soldiers
Shiraz city (Southern Iran) - FILE
27. Wide of remains of Persepolis stone structures (once capital of the Persian Empire during Achaemenid dynasty about 500 BC)
28. Close of figures carved into stone-walls at Persepolis
29. Wide of remains of Persepolis
30. Close of beautifully carved stone wall
31. Wide pan of Persepolis
32. Two stone columns at Perspolis
33. Pan and zoom out of tourist visiting Persepolis archaeological site
34. Wide of Persepolis and tall stone-columns in background
Tehran - December 22nd, 2007
35. Pan of Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian, entering room taking seat and opening a book
36. Mid of Dariush looking at pictures of Iranian-made antique carved stones
37. Close of hand flipping pages of book
38. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian
39. Close of Akbarzadeh's hand flipping pages
40. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian:
41. Various of Akbarzadeh looking at pictures in book
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He is talking about mashhad's future as the biggest touristic city of iran.
محمدرضا مزجی
معاونت اقتصادی شهرداری مشهد
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This feature takes us from the north east part of Iran to the north west corner of the country. Here we visit three major cities of Khorasan province; Mashhad, Neishabur and Sabzevar. These cities are located on the ancient Silk Road and have played important roles in the cultural, economical and social exchanges between the East and the West.

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In this feature, the reporter refers to two Iranian female painters to see their works of art.

published:03 Mar 2015

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This video documents the final stage and the formal handover of Zurich-based artist Navid Tschopp’s work “Topologische Agenda – Der Weg zum Master”.
One of the artists we met when we covered the Master of Fine ArtsDegreeShow2010 in Zürich was Navid Tschopp. The project he presented as his Master thesis was created by him over a period of two years. On the way to his studio he was regularly throwing office white office magnets onto the steel facade of the garbage power plant of the city of Zürich. Over the time this action created a constantly changing and slowly growing texture. Navid Tschopp did this without the permission of the authorities. Not even the director of the power plant had realized that a part of his building was transformed into an art work.
On the 7th June, 2010, Navid Tschopp threw the last magnet onto the steel facade of the power plant. He also donated his work “Topologische Agenda – Der Weg zum Master” by handing over the deed of gift to the city of Zurich, represented by Christoph Zemp, manager of the power plant, and Bettina Burkhardt, director of the department Art in Public Space Zurich.
Navid Tschopp (also known as Navid Sadrossadat) was born in Mashhad, Iran in 1978. He studied at the School of Design in Basel, and the Academies of Fine Arts in Bern and Zürich. Since 1989 he lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2006 he focuses on temporary interventions in the public space. Until the 24th of August 2010 he is taking part in a group show at the Sigi-Feigel-Terrasse in Zürich (a project by Kunstraum R57).
Navid Tschopp: Topological Agenda. Final stage and formal handover of the work. ERZ Kehrichtheizkraftwerk Josefstrasse, Zürich. Public Art / Performance, June 7, 2010.
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Mashhad

Mashhad (Persian:مشهد‎‎ ; listen) is the second most populous city in Iran and capital of Razavi Khorasan Province. It is located in the northeast of the country, close to the borders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. Its population was 2,749,374 at the 2011 census and its built-up (or metro) area was home to 2,782,976 inhabitants including Mashhad Taman and Torqabeh cities. It was a major oasis along the ancient Silk Road connecting with Merv in the East.

The city is most famous and revered for housing the tomb of Imam Reza, the eighth Shia Imam. Every year, millions of pilgrims visit the Imam Reza shrine and pay their tributes to Imam Reza.

Mashhad is also known as the city of Ferdowsi, the Iranian poet of Shahnameh, which is considered to be the national epic of Iran. The city is the hometown of some of the most significant Iranian literary figures and artists such as Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, the famous contemporary poet, and Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, the traditional Iranian singer and composer. Ferdowsi and Akhavan Sales are both buried in Tus, an ancient city that is considered to be the main origin of the current city of Mashhad.

History

Traces of ancient ruins have been found.

Ottoman era

In 1517, the village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers under the name of Mashad Yunis, as being in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Tabariyya under the Liwa of Safad. It had a population of 31 households and 6 bachelors, all Muslim, who paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat and barley, fruit trees, vegetable and fruit garden, orchard, as well as on goats and/or beehives.

In 1875, the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village, which he estimated had at most 300 inhabitants.
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Meshed as "A small village, built of stone, surrounding the traditional tomb of Jonah -a low building surmounted by two white- washed domes. It contains about 300 Moslems, and is situated on the top of a hill, without gardens. The water supply is from cisterns."

Other uses

Hip hop

Hip hop or hip-hop is a sub-cultural movement that formed during the early 1970s by African-American and Puerto Rican youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City. It became popular outside of the African-American community in the late 1980s and by the 2000s became the most listened-to musical genre in the world. It is characterized by four distinct elements, all of which represent the different manifestations of the culture: rap music (oral), turntablism or DJing (aural), b-boying (physical) and graffiti art (visual). Even while it continues to develop globally in myriad styles, these four foundational elements provide coherence to hip hop culture. The term is often used in a restrictive fashion as synonymous only with the oral practice of rap music.

The origin of the hip hop culture stems from the block parties of the Ghetto Brothers, when they plugged in the amplifiers for their instruments and speakers into the lampposts on 163rd Street and Prospect Avenue and used music to break down racial barriers, and from DJ Kool Herc at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, where Herc mixed samples of existing records with his own shouts to the crowd and dancers. Kool Herc is credited as the "father" of hip hop. DJ Afrika Bambaataa of the hip hop collective Zulu Nation outlined the pillars of hip hop culture, to which he coined the terms: MCing or "Emceein", DJing or "Deejayin", B-boying and graffiti writing or "Aerosol Writin".

Early life

Alsina was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended middle school in New Orleans. Although no one in his family was musically inclined, he was inspired to sing by Lauryn Hill in Sister Act 2. Alsina first uploaded videos to YouTube in 2007 at age 14, starting with a cover of "Hypothetically" by Lyfe Jennings.

With both his father and stepfather battling crack cocaine addiction, Alsina's mother moved him to Houston, Texas in search of a fresh start after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Then, Alsina's father died. Alsina had disagreements with his mother at some point and was "kicked out." After his older brother, Melvin La'Branch III, was shot and killed on August 31, 2010, he became more committed to his music, and relocated to Atlanta in 2011.

Hip Hop (Royce da 5'9" song)

"Hip Hop" is a song by American rapper Royce da 5'9", released as the first single from his second studio album, Death Is Certain, which was released in 2004 through E1 Music (formerly "Koch Records"). The song is produced by DJ Premier. The single was released on November 22, 2003 in both physical and digital format. "Hip Hop" charted at #98 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart in late 2003. "Hip Hop" samples "Overture" by Jerry Goldsmith. The b-side for this single is "Death Is Certain Pt. 2 (It Hurts)".

Music video

The music video to "Hip Hop" (directed by Joe & Marvin) starts off in an old abandoned warehouse that Royce has refurbished into a livable place. Royce is sitting at a desk and writing a song that he raps throughout the whole video. The rest of the video shows Royce da 5'9" rapping from his sheet of paper and also different clips of him chucking different bits of songwriting paper away with lyrics that he's not completely satisfied with.

Sahand Quazi

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Sahand Davarpanah (Persian سهند داورپناه) (born July 11, 1985), currently known as his stage name Sahand Quazi (Persian سهند کوازی) is an Iranian record producer and rapper.

Music

In 2008 Quazi released his first solo song entitled ham hameh, despite being banned by several television stations for showing the modern day Flag of Iran the song was well received with honors on YouTube and has since been collectively viewed a quarter million times., Which puts this songs as one of hit songs/music videos In Iranian Rap In a Los Angeles Times article he mentioned that his music is "facing his own culture."

Spring of Mashhad

The traditional art of stone carving in Iran

Mashhad city (NortheasternIran) - December 12th, 2007
1. Wide of Hossein Noghani and Hojatollah Rajabpour, two stone engravers, entering their workshop and turning on the lights (early morning light)
2. Mid of Noghani sitting at his work desk, beginning his work using a hammer and chisel
3. Close of hand using a chisel to carve patterns into stone
4. Wide of Noghani and Rajabpour working in their workshop
5. Close of Noghani's face
6. Mid of Noghani engraving on stone using hammer and chisel
7. Tilt-up from hand-engraved stone pots to stone sword and tablets
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Hossein Noghani, master of stone engraving
"This art belongs to the city of Mashhad. The art of engraving on stones is transferred to the new generation from the older generation and that's because older masters know how to teach apprentice engravers. This (stone engraving) is a complete and perfect art and Europeans love the objects we make."
9. Wide of Noghani and Rajabpour working in workshop with an engraved piece of stone in foreground
10. Zoom out of Rajabpour working on a fine engraved stone dish
11. Various of Noghani and Rajabpour working in stone engraving workshop
12. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Rajabpour, stone engraver
"Stone engraving is a difficult job and there are not many young people interested in it. Nowadays youths are after easy-to-do jobs with high incomes and jobs like stone engraving does certainly not fit in that category."
13. Tilt-up of carved stone pots and urns
14. Mid of Noghani and Rajabpour speaking to each other and engraved tablets hanging on the wall in background
Mashhad city - December 20th, 2007
15. Wide exterior of decorative stone goods market with people leaving
16. Close of woman's face carved into stone pot
17. Wide of engraved stone urns and stone pictures in store
18. Close of engraved slate reading (Arabic): "Allah"
19. Wide of shop and sign reading (Farsi): "Negin Hatam handicrafts" in foreground
20. Close of hand carving into stone plate using chisel
21. Close / low-angle of man's face
22. Pan from JamalHassani working to engraved stone urns, plates and slates
23. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Jamal Hassani, stone engraver
"Stone carving is a very difficult and a rather masculine job - not really suitable for women. As far as I know, women rarely get into engraving stones."
24. Wide of people walking and looking at shops
25. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Behnam Mohammad-Nejad customer, tourist and art lover
"I visited this market. The carved stones are really beautiful. I loved the art works and engraved stone objects. I believeIranian artists are among the most talented in the whole world."
26. Zoom in to stone dish decorated with engraved pictures of Iranian Achaemenid soldiers
Shiraz city (Southern Iran) - FILE
27. Wide of remains of Persepolis stone structures (once capital of the Persian Empire during Achaemenid dynasty about 500 BC)
28. Close of figures carved into stone-walls at Persepolis
29. Wide of remains of Persepolis
30. Close of beautifully carved stone wall
31. Wide pan of Persepolis
32. Two stone columns at Perspolis
33. Pan and zoom out of tourist visiting Persepolis archaeological site
34. Wide of Persepolis and tall stone-columns in background
Tehran - December 22nd, 2007
35. Pan of Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian, entering room taking seat and opening a book
36. Mid of Dariush looking at pictures of Iranian-made antique carved stones
37. Close of hand flipping pages of book
38. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian
39. Close of Akbarzadeh's hand flipping pages
40. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian:
41. Various of Akbarzadeh looking at pictures in book
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mashhad future | mohammadreza mazji | TEDxSanabaad

mashhad future | mohammadreza mazji | TEDxSanabaad

mashhad future | mohammadreza mazji | TEDxSanabaad

He is talking about mashhad's future as the biggest touristic city of iran.
محمدرضا مزجی
معاونت اقتصادی شهرداری مشهد
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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The Silk Road

This feature takes us from the north east part of Iran to the north west corner of the country. Here we visit three major cities of Khorasan province; Mashhad, Neishabur and Sabzevar. These cities are located on the ancient Silk Road and have played important roles in the cultural, economical and social exchanges between the East and the West.

5:27

Female Painters

Female Painters

Female Painters

In this feature, the reporter refers to two Iranian female painters to see their works of art.

5:11

Navid Tschopp: Topological Agenda – Public Art / Performance

Navid Tschopp: Topological Agenda – Public Art / Performance

Navid Tschopp: Topological Agenda – Public Art / Performance

This video documents the final stage and the formal handover of Zurich-based artist Navid Tschopp’s work “Topologische Agenda – Der Weg zum Master”.
One of the artists we met when we covered the Master of Fine ArtsDegreeShow2010 in Zürich was Navid Tschopp. The project he presented as his Master thesis was created by him over a period of two years. On the way to his studio he was regularly throwing office white office magnets onto the steel facade of the garbage power plant of the city of Zürich. Over the time this action created a constantly changing and slowly growing texture. Navid Tschopp did this without the permission of the authorities. Not even the director of the power plant had realized that a part of his building was transformed into an art work.
On the 7th June, 2010, Navid Tschopp threw the last magnet onto the steel facade of the power plant. He also donated his work “Topologische Agenda – Der Weg zum Master” by handing over the deed of gift to the city of Zurich, represented by Christoph Zemp, manager of the power plant, and Bettina Burkhardt, director of the department Art in Public Space Zurich.
Navid Tschopp (also known as Navid Sadrossadat) was born in Mashhad, Iran in 1978. He studied at the School of Design in Basel, and the Academies of Fine Arts in Bern and Zürich. Since 1989 he lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2006 he focuses on temporary interventions in the public space. Until the 24th of August 2010 he is taking part in a group show at the Sigi-Feigel-Terrasse in Zürich (a project by Kunstraum R57).
Navid Tschopp: Topological Agenda. Final stage and formal handover of the work. ERZ Kehrichtheizkraftwerk Josefstrasse, Zürich. Public Art / Performance, June 7, 2010.
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Street Art Draws Attention to Iran Human Rights

A half-dozen murals painted around the New York area are helping to draw attention to journalist Maziar Bahari's campaign for press freedom and educational access in Iran. He spent 118 days in an Iranian jail after making a joke on television. (Sept. 22)
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All artists of Mashhad

Spring of Mashhad

The traditional art of stone carving in Iran

Mashhad city (NortheasternIran) - December 12th, 2007
1. Wide of Hossein Noghani and Hojatollah Rajabpour, two stone engravers, entering their workshop and turning on the lights (early morning light)
2. Mid of Noghani sitting at his work desk, beginning his work using a hammer and chisel
3. Close of hand using a chisel to carve patterns into stone
4. Wide of Noghani and Rajabpour working in their workshop
5. Close of Noghani's face
6. Mid of Noghani engraving on stone using hammer and chisel
7. Tilt-up from hand-engraved stone pots to stone sword and tablets
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Hossein Noghani, master of stone engraving
"This art belongs to the city of Mashhad. The art of engraving on stones is transferred to the new generation from the older generation and that's because older...

published: 21 Jul 2015

mashhad future | mohammadreza mazji | TEDxSanabaad

He is talking about mashhad's future as the biggest touristic city of iran.
محمدرضا مزجی
معاونت اقتصادی شهرداری مشهد
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

published: 18 Jan 2017

martial arts TRICKING iran mashhad navid Doubleleg .mov

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Documentary of sahand Quazi visitng mashhad 051 to launch Raplarzeh 051 - Part 3...This part sahand quazi and new raplarzeh artists of mashhad talk about Raplarzeh mentality and problems of Iranian hiphop and how to solve it and leaving from Mashhad airport to Tehran

The Silk Road

This feature takes us from the north east part of Iran to the north west corner of the country. Here we visit three major cities of Khorasan province; Mashhad, Neishabur and Sabzevar. These cities are located on the ancient Silk Road and have played important roles in the cultural, economical and social exchanges between the East and the West.

published: 24 Jan 2016

Female Painters

In this feature, the reporter refers to two Iranian female painters to see their works of art.

published: 03 Mar 2015

Navid Tschopp: Topological Agenda – Public Art / Performance

This video documents the final stage and the formal handover of Zurich-based artist Navid Tschopp’s work “Topologische Agenda – Der Weg zum Master”.
One of the artists we met when we covered the Master of Fine ArtsDegreeShow2010 in Zürich was Navid Tschopp. The project he presented as his Master thesis was created by him over a period of two years. On the way to his studio he was regularly throwing office white office magnets onto the steel facade of the garbage power plant of the city of Zürich. Over the time this action created a constantly changing and slowly growing texture. Navid Tschopp did this without the permission of the authorities. Not even the director of the power plant had realized that a part of his building was transformed into an art work.
On the 7th June, 2010, Navi...

Tonight the spring house hosted all the artists

Street Art Draws Attention to Iran Human Rights

A half-dozen murals painted around the New York area are helping to draw attention to journalist Maziar Bahari's campaign for press freedom and educational access in Iran. He spent 118 days in an Iranian jail after making a joke on television. (Sept. 22)
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Mashhad city (NortheasternIran) - December 12th, 2007
1. Wide of Hossein Noghani and Hojatollah Rajabpour, two stone engravers, entering their workshop and turning on the lights (early morning light)
2. Mid of Noghani sitting at his work desk, beginning his work using a hammer and chisel
3. Close of hand using a chisel to carve patterns into stone
4. Wide of Noghani and Rajabpour working in their workshop
5. Close of Noghani's face
6. Mid of Noghani engraving on stone using hammer and chisel
7. Tilt-up from hand-engraved stone pots to stone sword and tablets
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Hossein Noghani, master of stone engraving
"This art belongs to the city of Mashhad. The art of engraving on stones is transferred to the new generation from the older generation and that's because older masters know how to teach apprentice engravers. This (stone engraving) is a complete and perfect art and Europeans love the objects we make."
9. Wide of Noghani and Rajabpour working in workshop with an engraved piece of stone in foreground
10. Zoom out of Rajabpour working on a fine engraved stone dish
11. Various of Noghani and Rajabpour working in stone engraving workshop
12. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Rajabpour, stone engraver
"Stone engraving is a difficult job and there are not many young people interested in it. Nowadays youths are after easy-to-do jobs with high incomes and jobs like stone engraving does certainly not fit in that category."
13. Tilt-up of carved stone pots and urns
14. Mid of Noghani and Rajabpour speaking to each other and engraved tablets hanging on the wall in background
Mashhad city - December 20th, 2007
15. Wide exterior of decorative stone goods market with people leaving
16. Close of woman's face carved into stone pot
17. Wide of engraved stone urns and stone pictures in store
18. Close of engraved slate reading (Arabic): "Allah"
19. Wide of shop and sign reading (Farsi): "Negin Hatam handicrafts" in foreground
20. Close of hand carving into stone plate using chisel
21. Close / low-angle of man's face
22. Pan from JamalHassani working to engraved stone urns, plates and slates
23. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Jamal Hassani, stone engraver
"Stone carving is a very difficult and a rather masculine job - not really suitable for women. As far as I know, women rarely get into engraving stones."
24. Wide of people walking and looking at shops
25. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Behnam Mohammad-Nejad customer, tourist and art lover
"I visited this market. The carved stones are really beautiful. I loved the art works and engraved stone objects. I believeIranian artists are among the most talented in the whole world."
26. Zoom in to stone dish decorated with engraved pictures of Iranian Achaemenid soldiers
Shiraz city (Southern Iran) - FILE
27. Wide of remains of Persepolis stone structures (once capital of the Persian Empire during Achaemenid dynasty about 500 BC)
28. Close of figures carved into stone-walls at Persepolis
29. Wide of remains of Persepolis
30. Close of beautifully carved stone wall
31. Wide pan of Persepolis
32. Two stone columns at Perspolis
33. Pan and zoom out of tourist visiting Persepolis archaeological site
34. Wide of Persepolis and tall stone-columns in background
Tehran - December 22nd, 2007
35. Pan of Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian, entering room taking seat and opening a book
36. Mid of Dariush looking at pictures of Iranian-made antique carved stones
37. Close of hand flipping pages of book
38. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian
39. Close of Akbarzadeh's hand flipping pages
40. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian:
41. Various of Akbarzadeh looking at pictures in book
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Mashhad city (NortheasternIran) - December 12th, 2007
1. Wide of Hossein Noghani and Hojatollah Rajabpour, two stone engravers, entering their workshop and turning on the lights (early morning light)
2. Mid of Noghani sitting at his work desk, beginning his work using a hammer and chisel
3. Close of hand using a chisel to carve patterns into stone
4. Wide of Noghani and Rajabpour working in their workshop
5. Close of Noghani's face
6. Mid of Noghani engraving on stone using hammer and chisel
7. Tilt-up from hand-engraved stone pots to stone sword and tablets
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Hossein Noghani, master of stone engraving
"This art belongs to the city of Mashhad. The art of engraving on stones is transferred to the new generation from the older generation and that's because older masters know how to teach apprentice engravers. This (stone engraving) is a complete and perfect art and Europeans love the objects we make."
9. Wide of Noghani and Rajabpour working in workshop with an engraved piece of stone in foreground
10. Zoom out of Rajabpour working on a fine engraved stone dish
11. Various of Noghani and Rajabpour working in stone engraving workshop
12. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Rajabpour, stone engraver
"Stone engraving is a difficult job and there are not many young people interested in it. Nowadays youths are after easy-to-do jobs with high incomes and jobs like stone engraving does certainly not fit in that category."
13. Tilt-up of carved stone pots and urns
14. Mid of Noghani and Rajabpour speaking to each other and engraved tablets hanging on the wall in background
Mashhad city - December 20th, 2007
15. Wide exterior of decorative stone goods market with people leaving
16. Close of woman's face carved into stone pot
17. Wide of engraved stone urns and stone pictures in store
18. Close of engraved slate reading (Arabic): "Allah"
19. Wide of shop and sign reading (Farsi): "Negin Hatam handicrafts" in foreground
20. Close of hand carving into stone plate using chisel
21. Close / low-angle of man's face
22. Pan from JamalHassani working to engraved stone urns, plates and slates
23. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Jamal Hassani, stone engraver
"Stone carving is a very difficult and a rather masculine job - not really suitable for women. As far as I know, women rarely get into engraving stones."
24. Wide of people walking and looking at shops
25. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Behnam Mohammad-Nejad customer, tourist and art lover
"I visited this market. The carved stones are really beautiful. I loved the art works and engraved stone objects. I believeIranian artists are among the most talented in the whole world."
26. Zoom in to stone dish decorated with engraved pictures of Iranian Achaemenid soldiers
Shiraz city (Southern Iran) - FILE
27. Wide of remains of Persepolis stone structures (once capital of the Persian Empire during Achaemenid dynasty about 500 BC)
28. Close of figures carved into stone-walls at Persepolis
29. Wide of remains of Persepolis
30. Close of beautifully carved stone wall
31. Wide pan of Persepolis
32. Two stone columns at Perspolis
33. Pan and zoom out of tourist visiting Persepolis archaeological site
34. Wide of Persepolis and tall stone-columns in background
Tehran - December 22nd, 2007
35. Pan of Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian, entering room taking seat and opening a book
36. Mid of Dariush looking at pictures of Iranian-made antique carved stones
37. Close of hand flipping pages of book
38. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian
39. Close of Akbarzadeh's hand flipping pages
40. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian:
41. Various of Akbarzadeh looking at pictures in book
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mashhad future | mohammadreza mazji | TEDxSanabaad

He is talking about mashhad's future as the biggest touristic city of iran.
محمدرضا مزجی
معاونت اقتصادی شهرداری مشهد
This talk was given at a TEDx event usin...

He is talking about mashhad's future as the biggest touristic city of iran.
محمدرضا مزجی
معاونت اقتصادی شهرداری مشهد
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

He is talking about mashhad's future as the biggest touristic city of iran.
محمدرضا مزجی
معاونت اقتصادی شهرداری مشهد
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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The Silk Road

This feature takes us from the north east part of Iran to the north west corner of the country. Here we visit three major cities of Khorasan province; Mashhad,...

This feature takes us from the north east part of Iran to the north west corner of the country. Here we visit three major cities of Khorasan province; Mashhad, Neishabur and Sabzevar. These cities are located on the ancient Silk Road and have played important roles in the cultural, economical and social exchanges between the East and the West.

This feature takes us from the north east part of Iran to the north west corner of the country. Here we visit three major cities of Khorasan province; Mashhad, Neishabur and Sabzevar. These cities are located on the ancient Silk Road and have played important roles in the cultural, economical and social exchanges between the East and the West.

Navid Tschopp: Topological Agenda – Public Art / Performance

This video documents the final stage and the formal handover of Zurich-based artist Navid Tschopp’s work “Topologische Agenda – Der Weg zum Master”.
One of the...

This video documents the final stage and the formal handover of Zurich-based artist Navid Tschopp’s work “Topologische Agenda – Der Weg zum Master”.
One of the artists we met when we covered the Master of Fine ArtsDegreeShow2010 in Zürich was Navid Tschopp. The project he presented as his Master thesis was created by him over a period of two years. On the way to his studio he was regularly throwing office white office magnets onto the steel facade of the garbage power plant of the city of Zürich. Over the time this action created a constantly changing and slowly growing texture. Navid Tschopp did this without the permission of the authorities. Not even the director of the power plant had realized that a part of his building was transformed into an art work.
On the 7th June, 2010, Navid Tschopp threw the last magnet onto the steel facade of the power plant. He also donated his work “Topologische Agenda – Der Weg zum Master” by handing over the deed of gift to the city of Zurich, represented by Christoph Zemp, manager of the power plant, and Bettina Burkhardt, director of the department Art in Public Space Zurich.
Navid Tschopp (also known as Navid Sadrossadat) was born in Mashhad, Iran in 1978. He studied at the School of Design in Basel, and the Academies of Fine Arts in Bern and Zürich. Since 1989 he lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2006 he focuses on temporary interventions in the public space. Until the 24th of August 2010 he is taking part in a group show at the Sigi-Feigel-Terrasse in Zürich (a project by Kunstraum R57).
Navid Tschopp: Topological Agenda. Final stage and formal handover of the work. ERZ Kehrichtheizkraftwerk Josefstrasse, Zürich. Public Art / Performance, June 7, 2010.
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This video documents the final stage and the formal handover of Zurich-based artist Navid Tschopp’s work “Topologische Agenda – Der Weg zum Master”.
One of the artists we met when we covered the Master of Fine ArtsDegreeShow2010 in Zürich was Navid Tschopp. The project he presented as his Master thesis was created by him over a period of two years. On the way to his studio he was regularly throwing office white office magnets onto the steel facade of the garbage power plant of the city of Zürich. Over the time this action created a constantly changing and slowly growing texture. Navid Tschopp did this without the permission of the authorities. Not even the director of the power plant had realized that a part of his building was transformed into an art work.
On the 7th June, 2010, Navid Tschopp threw the last magnet onto the steel facade of the power plant. He also donated his work “Topologische Agenda – Der Weg zum Master” by handing over the deed of gift to the city of Zurich, represented by Christoph Zemp, manager of the power plant, and Bettina Burkhardt, director of the department Art in Public Space Zurich.
Navid Tschopp (also known as Navid Sadrossadat) was born in Mashhad, Iran in 1978. He studied at the School of Design in Basel, and the Academies of Fine Arts in Bern and Zürich. Since 1989 he lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2006 he focuses on temporary interventions in the public space. Until the 24th of August 2010 he is taking part in a group show at the Sigi-Feigel-Terrasse in Zürich (a project by Kunstraum R57).
Navid Tschopp: Topological Agenda. Final stage and formal handover of the work. ERZ Kehrichtheizkraftwerk Josefstrasse, Zürich. Public Art / Performance, June 7, 2010.
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Art TV pioneer Vernissage TV provides you with an authentic insight into the world of contemporary fine arts, design and architecture. With its two main series "No Comment" and "Interviews", art tv channel VernissageTV attends opening receptions of exhibitions worldwide, interviews artists, designers, architects. VTV provides art lovers with news, reports and features from the international art scene. VernissageTV: the window to the art world. Das Fenster zur Kunstwelt. La fenêtre sur le monde de l'art. A janela para o mundo da arte. La ventana al mundo del arte. نافذة على عالم الفن. 到艺术世界的窗口。Окно в мир искусства. Since 2005.

Street Art Draws Attention to Iran Human Rights

A half-dozen murals painted around the New York area are helping to draw attention to journalist Maziar Bahari's campaign for press freedom and educational acce...

A half-dozen murals painted around the New York area are helping to draw attention to journalist Maziar Bahari's campaign for press freedom and educational access in Iran. He spent 118 days in an Iranian jail after making a joke on television. (Sept. 22)
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The traditional art of stone carving in Iran

Mashhad city (NortheasternIran) - December 12th, 2007
1. Wide of Hossein Noghani and Hojatollah Rajabpour, two stone engravers, entering their workshop and turning on the lights (early morning light)
2. Mid of Noghani sitting at his work desk, beginning his work using a hammer and chisel
3. Close of hand using a chisel to carve patterns into stone
4. Wide of Noghani and Rajabpour working in their workshop
5. Close of Noghani's face
6. Mid of Noghani engraving on stone using hammer and chisel
7. Tilt-up from hand-engraved stone pots to stone sword and tablets
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Hossein Noghani, master of stone engraving
"This art belongs to the city of Mashhad. The art of engraving on stones is transferred to the new generation from the older generation and that's because older masters know how to teach apprentice engravers. This (stone engraving) is a complete and perfect art and Europeans love the objects we make."
9. Wide of Noghani and Rajabpour working in workshop with an engraved piece of stone in foreground
10. Zoom out of Rajabpour working on a fine engraved stone dish
11. Various of Noghani and Rajabpour working in stone engraving workshop
12. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Rajabpour, stone engraver
"Stone engraving is a difficult job and there are not many young people interested in it. Nowadays youths are after easy-to-do jobs with high incomes and jobs like stone engraving does certainly not fit in that category."
13. Tilt-up of carved stone pots and urns
14. Mid of Noghani and Rajabpour speaking to each other and engraved tablets hanging on the wall in background
Mashhad city - December 20th, 2007
15. Wide exterior of decorative stone goods market with people leaving
16. Close of woman's face carved into stone pot
17. Wide of engraved stone urns and stone pictures in store
18. Close of engraved slate reading (Arabic): "Allah"
19. Wide of shop and sign reading (Farsi): "Negin Hatam handicrafts" in foreground
20. Close of hand carving into stone plate using chisel
21. Close / low-angle of man's face
22. Pan from JamalHassani working to engraved stone urns, plates and slates
23. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Jamal Hassani, stone engraver
"Stone carving is a very difficult and a rather masculine job - not really suitable for women. As far as I know, women rarely get into engraving stones."
24. Wide of people walking and looking at shops
25. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Behnam Mohammad-Nejad customer, tourist and art lover
"I visited this market. The carved stones are really beautiful. I loved the art works and engraved stone objects. I believeIranian artists are among the most talented in the whole world."
26. Zoom in to stone dish decorated with engraved pictures of Iranian Achaemenid soldiers
Shiraz city (Southern Iran) - FILE
27. Wide of remains of Persepolis stone structures (once capital of the Persian Empire during Achaemenid dynasty about 500 BC)
28. Close of figures carved into stone-walls at Persepolis
29. Wide of remains of Persepolis
30. Close of beautifully carved stone wall
31. Wide pan of Persepolis
32. Two stone columns at Perspolis
33. Pan and zoom out of tourist visiting Persepolis archaeological site
34. Wide of Persepolis and tall stone-columns in background
Tehran - December 22nd, 2007
35. Pan of Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian, entering room taking seat and opening a book
36. Mid of Dariush looking at pictures of Iranian-made antique carved stones
37. Close of hand flipping pages of book
38. SOUNDBITE (Farsi): Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian
39. Close of Akbarzadeh's hand flipping pages
40. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Dariush Akbarzadeh, archaeologist and historian:
41. Various of Akbarzadeh looking at pictures in book
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mashhad future | mohammadreza mazji | TEDxSanabaad

He is talking about mashhad's future as the biggest touristic city of iran.
محمدرضا مزجی
معاونت اقتصادی شهرداری مشهد
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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Documentary of sahand Quazi visitng mashhad 051 to launch Raplarzeh 051 - Part 3...This part sahand quazi and new raplarzeh artists of mashhad talk about Raplarzeh mentality and problems of Iranian hiphop and how to solve it and leaving from Mashhad airport to Tehran

The Silk Road

This feature takes us from the north east part of Iran to the north west corner of the country. Here we visit three major cities of Khorasan province; Mashhad, Neishabur and Sabzevar. These cities are located on the ancient Silk Road and have played important roles in the cultural, economical and social exchanges between the East and the West.

Navid Tschopp: Topological Agenda – Public Art / Performance

This video documents the final stage and the formal handover of Zurich-based artist Navid Tschopp’s work “Topologische Agenda – Der Weg zum Master”.
One of the artists we met when we covered the Master of Fine ArtsDegreeShow2010 in Zürich was Navid Tschopp. The project he presented as his Master thesis was created by him over a period of two years. On the way to his studio he was regularly throwing office white office magnets onto the steel facade of the garbage power plant of the city of Zürich. Over the time this action created a constantly changing and slowly growing texture. Navid Tschopp did this without the permission of the authorities. Not even the director of the power plant had realized that a part of his building was transformed into an art work.
On the 7th June, 2010, Navid Tschopp threw the last magnet onto the steel facade of the power plant. He also donated his work “Topologische Agenda – Der Weg zum Master” by handing over the deed of gift to the city of Zurich, represented by Christoph Zemp, manager of the power plant, and Bettina Burkhardt, director of the department Art in Public Space Zurich.
Navid Tschopp (also known as Navid Sadrossadat) was born in Mashhad, Iran in 1978. He studied at the School of Design in Basel, and the Academies of Fine Arts in Bern and Zürich. Since 1989 he lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2006 he focuses on temporary interventions in the public space. Until the 24th of August 2010 he is taking part in a group show at the Sigi-Feigel-Terrasse in Zürich (a project by Kunstraum R57).
Navid Tschopp: Topological Agenda. Final stage and formal handover of the work. ERZ Kehrichtheizkraftwerk Josefstrasse, Zürich. Public Art / Performance, June 7, 2010.
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Street Art Draws Attention to Iran Human Rights

A half-dozen murals painted around the New York area are helping to draw attention to journalist Maziar Bahari's campaign for press freedom and educational access in Iran. He spent 118 days in an Iranian jail after making a joke on television. (Sept. 22)
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Mashhad

Mashhad (Persian:مشهد‎‎ ; listen) is the second most populous city in Iran and capital of Razavi Khorasan Province. It is located in the northeast of the country, close to the borders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. Its population was 2,749,374 at the 2011 census and its built-up (or metro) area was home to 2,782,976 inhabitants including Mashhad Taman and Torqabeh cities. It was a major oasis along the ancient Silk Road connecting with Merv in the East.

The city is most famous and revered for housing the tomb of Imam Reza, the eighth Shia Imam. Every year, millions of pilgrims visit the Imam Reza shrine and pay their tributes to Imam Reza.

Mashhad is also known as the city of Ferdowsi, the Iranian poet of Shahnameh, which is considered to be the national epic of Iran. The city is the hometown of some of the most significant Iranian literary figures and artists such as Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, the famous contemporary poet, and Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, the traditional Iranian singer and composer. Ferdowsi and Akhavan Sales are both buried in Tus, an ancient city that is considered to be the main origin of the current city of Mashhad.